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Not much happens in and out of the small Amish town and that's just the way Sadie likes it. So when her brother is accused of murder, she's terrified.Sadie believes her brother is innocent, but she's going to have a hard time proving it when he can't remember the events of the night himself. What looks to be a tragic accident suddenly turns into an accusation of murder with Sadie questioning both her own brother and life long friends. Will Sadie be...
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With Halloween around the corner, Nettie Coretta was tasked with writing a spooky article for the local paper. Her boss had suggested chalking up a story about the cemetery but Nettie was much more interested in the abandoned Amish farmhouse that stood on top of a hill like a spectator looking upon the town. For years, it had fascinated her but she had never mustered the courage to venture up that hill. There were too many rumors about disappearances...
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A young soldier, Peter, returns home and meets an Amish girl, Lovina, along the way. Lovina is pregnant and fearful of returning home to her Amish family where her judgmental father may want to shun her because she is now pregnant out of wedlock. The chivalrous Peter offers to pretend to be her husband in order for her to get things situated at home but the more time they spend together, the deeper they fall in love. However, Peter has a girl back...
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Sharida did not know where her father liked to wander off to. All she knew was that he was never around to help her. Even when she needed him the most, he was nothing more than a disappointment. How had her mother married such a vile man? The taste of disgust gathered at the back of her throat but she swallowed it down. Now was not the time for self-pity. She had a bar to run and without it, her siblings would starve. Sheriff Tucker could only watch...
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Sarah's curly blonde hair isn't the only thing that sets her apart from her Amish community. Twenty-eight and single, Sarah doesn't believe a woman needs to be married in order to be happy. Her terminally ill best friend disagrees, however, and wants Sarah to promise to marry her husband after she dies. Sarah half-heartedly agrees only to make her friend happy. Her friend's husband, Samuel, has made the same agreement with no intention of following...
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The headmistress beckoned her inside and into her personal lodging. It was the most extravagant room in the entire building and beautifully decorated. She motions for Mina to sit as she poured a cup of tea. "I have an offer. And it is an offer you cannot refuse."
Mina shifted onto the edge of her seat. Her throat tightened as her mouth became dryer than a desert. "Y-Yes, alright." She stuttered. "I am in your service." In all honesty, Mina could not...
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Penelope never thought it was possible to die of a broken heart but it happened to her mother. She had tried to mend that gaping wound inside her chest but, in the end, there was no saving her. With no money or job opportunities, Penelope left her small town to become a mail order bride of Thomas. Like her own father, Thomas is a grieving widow. Can they find common ground both she and Thomas are grieving for their loved ones?
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THE AMISH GIRL & THE FBI AGENTFlorence has a problem. Everyone is expecting her successful Englisch boyfriend to be her date for her best friend's wedding. There's one little snafu: He doesn't exist. Unless she can come up with a grand excuse, she's headed for some serious shaming.Brad has a problem. The FBI agent's search for a double agent lands him at Florence's Amish town, and he needs a cover to finish the job. When he comes across a tearful...
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Janet's father told her that she should count her blessings that he had found her a suitable husband. He was a banker and was very well off. But Janet had other ideas. She would not let it happen. She didn't want to give up her calling as a nurse and be some banker's wife. Defying her father for the first time in her life, she came up with a plan. She would move out west as a mail-order-bride. Together with her young daughter, she had already found...
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APOLLONIASheriff Thomas Lee has experienced more than his share of tragedy and heartbreak in his life. The last thing he needs is trouble in the form of a headstrong mistress trying to test his patience. Her name is Apollonia and she is on the run. On the run after being pegged as a mail order bride for a politician that she finds utterly distasteful. But her family is hellbent on her getting hitched to the powerful man in question who simply will...
11) Clockwork Amish
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A young Amish woman begins care taking duties for her ailing grandmother while pining for the new handsome and roguish Englisch teacher in town...but the overweight Abraham has been pining for her for years....will she see the sweetness in Abraham and choose him over the Englischer?
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Jacob was getting old. With his joints being stiff and his breathing ragged, he knew he didn't have much time left on Earth. But before he said his final goodbye, there was something he needed to know: What had happened to Hannah Yoder. Thirty years ago, he had intended to marry her only to have her disappear weeks before the wedding. He had searched for her everywhere, leaving no stone unturned, but still, he had come up empty-handed and after waiting...
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Feeling lost and abandoned, Jezebel is a young frontier woman battles anger and self-pity at a school for the blind. But soon, she finds a source of hope & romance with the arrival of a new teacher named Thomas. The two young people begin working together and the students are given renewed hope... But what will happen when the school is threatened by lack of funds and the stresses it brings to their budding romance?
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Hannah is a beautiful housewife who is married to an Amish man. While out Christmas shopping she accidentally gets her packages mixed up in a bookstore with a handsome young man named Charles. Charles is a married Englischer with two young children who also lives near the Amish town. Months later they take the same train into the city and bump into each other again. There is an instant attraction between them but neither of them is looking for an...
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A metaphor for married life from author Vanessa Carlson... It is the night before Christmas and Aaron has still not returned home. A snow storm suddenly hit while he was out in the hills gathering wood. His wife, Emma, is frantic. She goes out into the wilderness looking for him. They both are lost in the storm, having their lives flashing before their eyes as the weather gets worse. Will they find each other in the storm?
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A BRIDE IN WAITING The war had threatened to take everything from her. It had practically banged its drums at her very door front. The flames had licked at the shingles and had nearly destroyed every crop her family had ever planted. Despite all this horror, Jolene waited for her husband. Each night she would kneel beside her bed and pray for his safe return. She could not imagine what he was going through but she knew it was horrific. She prayed...
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A near-fatal car accident leaves an unconscious young woman on the doorstep of farmer John in the Amish town of Lancaster. But when she finally awakens, it is with no memory of who she is or where she came from. Karen as she calls herself, has no identity; the only clue to her circumstances is a recurring nightmare of crows swarming her vehicle. With the help of John and his sister Lovina, Karen tries to solve the mystery of her own identity and the...
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Florence Jones is the widow of a Civil War hero that takes in an injured soldier from the opposite side that has found his way onto her farm. For the next few weeks, Florence lived with a constant fear of being discovered. She could no longer hear the cannon fire from the front lines, but she knew it was there. Was it moving away from her or creeping closer like some sort of silent killer? It worried her because she had grown fond of Linus and she...
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Cowboy Rex got a job as a coal runner at the mines and with the money he saved up, he was able to buy himself his very first horse. From there, he explored the stretch of land between the Atlantic and Pacific. He was his own man, doing as he pleased, and never thinking anything of it. From time to time, he would receive letters from his old Gram. She liked to talk about the ranch and there was always a plea toward the bottom, begging him to return,...